The Future of the Port of Cork
by DAPHNE POCHIN MOULD
No port, in today's world, can remain static; it must develop to meet the needs oftodays and tomorrow's shipping. Cork Harbour Commissioners havetaken up the challenge ofthe times and pushed ahead with a number of ambitious projects. Reclamation of slob lands up river led to the development of the 155 acre Tivoli Industrial Estate, completed in 1976, with its roll-on, roll-off facilities and container traffic. Much more ambitious is the Ringaskiddy development in the outer har bour, which hasinvolved extensivemaking oflandforthe actual harbour, and undersea deepening ofthe approaches there-to. Hand in hand with the Ringaskiddy harbour goes the whole Cork Harbour Development scheme, in which some 2000 adjacent acres have been zoned for new in dustries to be associated with the port - Pfizer and Penn Chemicals have, ofcourse, been long settled inthe area. The planners hope to beableto ac commodate the new industrial developments in the Harbour without do ing serious damage to its beauty and amenity value to the people ofCork. 1984 saw the new Ringaskiddy harbour with its deepwater basin and ferry and ro-ro terminals, named as Ireland's first Free Pore, which should give added impetus co its development. By 1985, Cork will be the only port in Ireland char is capable of handling the really big ships, carrying containers and general cargo, that now travel the world's shipping lanes. The pore of Cork ofthe future will continue to live up to the motto ofthe old Cork, 'Statio Bene Fida Carinis'.
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